Thanks for all of your replys guys. I still have been unable to get my cd-rw working under Linux. I think that the ide-scsi module is conflicting with another scsi module at boot-time. (*see dmesg output at the end of this message)
Why this module is loading I have no idea, I do not have any scsi hardware and do not load any scsi modules at boot time besides the scsi emulation module (ide-scsi). I can mount the device as /dev/hdc but cannot mount it as /dev/cdrom or even /dev/scd0. The error messages I receive are: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) or mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) This puzzles me too since ide-scsi is loaded according to lsmod: sg 15320 0 (autoclean) (unused) ip_masq_raudio 2936 0 (unused) ip_masq_ftp 2456 0 (unused) af_packet 6040 0 (autoclean) serial 19564 0 (autoclean) ide-scsi 7080 0 autofs 9088 0 (unused) nvram 3460 0 (unused) es1371 25344 1 soundcore 2628 4 [es1371] ne2k-pci 4072 1 8390 6036 0 [ne2k-pci] 3c59x 18656 1 unix 10212 81 (autoclean) cdrecord -scanbus does not reveal my cd-rw as well. I'm I missing some configurations for the ide-scsi module in /etc/modules.conf ? Do I need to recompile the kernel and exclude native scsi support, or can I simply turn it off by adding some syntax to /etc/modules.conf? I'm running out of ideas here and would apreciate all the help you can give me. Thanks Stef Linux version 2.2.17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000313 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 Detected 553884 kHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1104.28 BogoMIPS Memory: 126984k/131008k available (1732k kernel code, 416k reserved, 1736k data, 140k init) Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K L1 D Cache: 64K CPU: L2 Cache: 512K CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 01 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9e1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:00 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13) apm: disabled on user request. Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: Maxtor 92041U4, ATA DISK drive hdc: ZIPCD 4x650, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: Maxtor 92041U4, 19541MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=2491/255/63 hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card) NCR53c406a: no available ports found sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0 Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! IBM MCA SCSI: No Microchannel-bus support present -> Aborting. megaraid: v107 (December 22, 1999) aec671x_detect: 3w-xxxx: tw_findcards(): No cards found. scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. Adding Swap: 96352k swap-space (priority -1) 3c59x.c:v0.99H 12Jun00 Donald Becker and others http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html eth0: 3Com 3c900 Cyclone 10Mbps TPO at 0xd400, 00:50:da:7a:f7:c5, IRQ 10 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, 10baseT interface. Media override to transceiver type 0 (10baseT). Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. ne2k-pci.c:vpre-1.00e 5/27/99 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xd000, IRQ 9. eth1: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xd000, IRQ 9, 00:60:67:3A:EE:7C. es1371: version v0.22 time 09:53:39 Jun 25 2000 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x02 es1371: found es1371 rev 2 at io 0xcc00 irq 5 es1371: features: joystick 0x0 es1371: codec vendor v (0x838476) revision 9 (0x09) es1371: codec features 18bit DAC 18bit ADC es1371: stereo enhancement: SigmaTel SS3D Non-volatile memory driver v1.0 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1 host. Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A